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Old 10th April 2006, 16:11
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Re: Death of Hptm. Joachim Kirschner IV./JG 27

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Originally Posted by Boris Ciglic
Hi Rob,

I don't think there is any "fog" about it whatsoever. He was captured, interrogated and shot. The same would happend to any partisan caught by the Germans (and occassionally even happened to US and British airmen in Yugoslavia).
In most of case what you said was true, but a chance of captured Luftwaffe airmen got shot was low, they were considered by partisans too valuable and usually be used for exchanging those partisans captured by Germans, Kirschner was simply very unlucky
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